Germany in the High Middle Ages c. 1050-1200

Abstract

Part I. German history in the High Middle Ages - Concepts, Explanations, Facts: 1. The three 'essentials' of history - space, time, and man 2. Germany in the Europe of the high Middle Ages Part II. 'Progress and Promise': The German Empire in the Mid Eleventh Century: 3. Social stratification and the structure of government in the Ottonian and Salian period 4. Rex et sacerdos - the priestly kingship of Henry III (1039-56) 5. Strengths and weaknesses of Salian kingship 6. Henry III as Roman patricius and the German popes 7. The beginnings and aims of church reform 8. The distance from the rest of Europe: France, England and the North Part III. From Christus Domini to Antichrist: The King of Germany and the Investiture Contest: 9. The reign of Henry IV and its consequences 10. The rise of the secular state and the priestly church Part IV. Political Reorientation and Emergent Diversity: From Salian Imperial Church System to Staufer Kingship: 11. The results of the investiture contest 12. 'The love of learning and the desire for God': church and spirituality in the age of Bernard of Clairvaux 13. Lothar III: kingship without a future 14. Conrad III: kingship without imperial glory Part V. The Centre-Point of the German Middle Ages: Frederick Barbarossa and His Age: 15. The election of Frederick I and the policy of balance: Frederick and the Empire before the Alexandrine schism 16. Empire and papacy in the struggle for supremacy 17. New forms of government 18. Henry VI and the shift in the Empire's centre of gravity Bibliography Index.